The Oceanic Unconscious: Exploring Ocean Remedies and Animal Kingdom Dreams in Homoeopathic Practice and its Dreams Repertory
Keywords: Subconscious mind, Ocean or Sea remedies, consolidate memories, Personal symbolism, Conscious personality, Rapid eye movement (REM).
Abstract: Dreams are one of nature’s miracles, not the result of a wandering mind in sleep. A dream is an interface between the process of life and our conscious personality.
1. Brain activity- Dreams occur during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, when brain activity is similar to that of being awake.
2. Personal symbolism- Dreams often use personal symbolism, drawing on individual experiences and emotions to convey messages.
3. Influence of experiences- Dreams can be influenced by daily experiences, emotions, and memories, as well as underlying psychological issues.
4. Variability- Dreams can vary greatly in terms of content, intensity, and frequency, and can be influenced by factors such as sleep quality, stress, and mental health.
5. Dreams can serve as a powerful tool for unlocking the patient’s inner world, facilitating more effective healing and personalized care. Dreams offer a unique window into the subconscious mind, providing valuable insights for homoeopathic case taking and prescribing.
Introduction
Life first originated in the sea or ocean. Man, and other animals have descended from sea organisms. If we analyse our extra cellular fluid is like an ocean of salt water that surrounds our cells. Our blood and fluids are nothing but a modified form of sea water.
In Homoeopathy we have the ocean or sea remedies like
- Natrum muriaticum (Common salt)
- Sepia
- Iodine (Iodum)
- Spongia
- Aqua marina (Sea water)
- Silicea (Sand)
[ World of Ocean or Sea remedies in one portrait we can see here Natrum muriaticum, Sepia, Iodine (Iodum), Spongia, Aqua marina (Sea water) Silicea (Sand).]
Definition
Dreams are the series of images, thoughts, and emotions that occur during sleep. Dreams are believed to be a way for the brain to process and consolidate memories, emotions, and experiences.
Relation to the Mind
1. Subconscious mind the dreams are thought to be a window into the subconscious mind, revealing thoughts, desires, and emotions that may not be accessible in waking life.
2. Emotional processing: Dreams can help process and regulate emotions, allowing the mind to work through challenging experiences and emotions.
3. Problem-solving: Dreams can also aid in problem-solving, as the brain can freely associate and generate new ideas during sleep.
Interpretation and Significance of Dreams in Homoeopathy
1. Personal interpretation: Dreams are highly personal and can have different meanings for different people.
2. Symbolic meaning: Dreams often use symbolism, requiring interpretation to uncover underlying themes and emotions.
3. Insight into psyche: Dreams can provide insight into the psyche, revealing underlying fears, desires, and motivations.
These points highlight the complex and multifaceted nature of dreams and their relationship to the mind.
In an overview of the study and research concerning dreams, there is evidence that dream can be
a. an expression of what is happening in the physical body;
b. a way of balancing the physiological and psychological activities in us;
c. an enormously original source of insight and information in us, e.g. scanning information and forming new ideas;
d. an expression of human super senses; a meaning of solving problems, not only in our personal life, but also in relationship and work; a way of reaching beyond the known world of experience and presenting intimations from the unknown.
The information about dreams presented here is all that has been studied and applied in my clinical practice during 27 years of working and studying dreams of our patients. The Homoeopathic medicine Selenium is used in very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams what he had forgotten, that’s the beauty of homoeopathy in interpretation and application of dream as a key symptom during case taking. The detailed description of dreams under each ocean remedy. This helps the Homoeopathic physician to have an easy assessment. Also explained many different types of dreams and dream images, dreams cover a huge range of phenomena and human experience.
DREAMS OF OCEAN / SEA REMEDIES
1) NATRUM MURATICUM – Dreams of
- Accusations
- Affecting the mind
- Amorous (coition)
- Amorous coition with
- Amorous – Pollutions with
- Anger – quarrels, vexations
- Anxious – distressing, frightful, nightmares, sleep anxious, unpleasant
- Anxious – midnight after
- Anxiety on waking, falling asleep, on
- Anxious – menses during, weeping during sleep.
- Beaten being
- Body parts of teeth pulled out being
- Confused (disconnected)
- Connected
- Continuation of dreams after waking
- Continuation of former dream on or after falling asleep
- Crime (guilt)
- Cruelty – ill-treatment, mutilation, violence
- Death
- Disease (physician, sick people)
- Disease – poisoning
- Disgusting
- Drinking – carousing
- Exciting (affecting the mind)
- Exertion mental (excelling in mental work, work)
- Exertion physical (climbing, business, striving, work)
- Fantastic (coloured, visionary)
- Fights (battles, duels, enemies, stabbed, quarrels, war, wounded)
- Fire
- Frightful (anxious)
- Frightful true after waking, seeming ghosts
- Journeys (difficulties, foreign country)
- Many (dreaming)
- Murder (killing)
- Nightmares (sleep, anxious)
- People
- Pleasant (joyous, quiet, peaceful, wonderful)
- Poetic
- Poisoned being (murdered, being)
- Prisoner, being taken a (rest, imprisonment)
- Quarrels (anger, abused, insults, provoked, reconciliation)
- Remembered
- Remorse’s (religious, reproaches)
- Repeating
- Reproaches himself (remorse’s)
- Restless
- Riots (insurrections, riots)
- Robbers
- Robbers – sleep, until the house is searched
- Robbers – menses, during
- Rousing the patient (waking)
- Rousing the patient frequently
- Sad (cares, weeping)
- Teeth pulled out things – varied
- Thirsty, being
- Unimportant
- Unpleasant (disgusting)
- Unremembered
- Vexatious (anger, quarrels, unpleasant, striving)
- Visionary (fantastic)
- Vivid midnight after
- Water (bathing, danger, drowning, falling, fishes, flood, journeys, jumping, rowing, sailing, sea, storm, stream, swimming,
- wading, walking
- Water – noon.
2) SEPIA SUCCUS – Dreams of
- Amorous (coition)
- Amorous – coition with, pollutions with
- Anger (quarrels, vexatious)
- Anxious (distressing, frightful, nightmares, sleep, anxious, unpleasant)
- Anxious lying on left side, when
- Astray going
- Body disfigured
- Body parts of – face disfigured
- Business day, of the (events)
- Busy, being hurry
- Calculating
- Calling out – someone is calling
- Confused (disconnected)
- Continuation of dreams after waking
- Difficulties – (unsuccessful efforts)
- Events previous, day of the previous (business)
- Exhausting
- Falling height from
- Fantastic (coloured, visionary)
- Fights ghosts, with
- Forest
- Forest – going astray in a forest
- Frightful (anxious)
- Ghosts
- Ghosts – fighting with ghosts
- Lost in a forest
- Ludicrous – lying left side on
- Many (dreaming)
- Many – crowding one upon another
- Mice
- Persistent (continuation, continuous, long)
- Places – falling from high places (precipices)
- Pleasant (joyous, peaceful, quiet, wonderful)
- Pursued being (fleeing, running)
- Pursued being – run backwards must
- Quarrels (abused, anger, insults, provoked, reconciliation)
- Rape
- Rape – threats of rape
- Rats
- Rousing the patient (waking
- Snakes
- Threats – rape of
- Unimportant
- Unpleasant (disgusting)
- Urinating
- Vermin (lice)
- Vexatious (anger, quarrels, unpleasant, striving)
- Visionary (fantastic)
- Vivid
3) IODIUM PURUM -Dreams of
- Accidents (disaster, misfortune)
- Amorous (coition)
- Amorous – Pollutions with
- Anxious – (distressing, frightful, nightmares, sleep anxious, unpleasant)?
- Coition (amorous)
- Coition – unsuccessful
- Confused (disconnected)
- Danger
- Dead, of the Dead bodies
- Disgusting – soiling himself with excrements
- Disgusting – wadding in excrement (mud)
- Eating (Banquet Carousing, cooking food, picnics)
- Exertion, mental (excelling in mental work, work)
- Exhausting
- Falling water into
- Falling – water into daughter is falling
- Many (dreaming)
- Misfortune (accidents, disaster, events unfortunate, loss)
- Nightmares (sleep, anxious)
- Restless?
- Soiling himself
- Swimming
- Unpleasant (disgusting)
- Unremembered
- Unsuccessful efforts – coition on
- Vivid?
- Wading – in excrements
- Walking – mud in, ruins, among
- Water (bathing, danger, drowning, falling, fishes, flood, journeys, jumping, rowing, sailing, sea, storm, stream, swimming, wading, walking)
4) SPONGIA TOSTA -Dreams of
- Anger (quarrels, vexatious)
- Anxious (distressing, frightful, nightmares, sleep, anxious, unpleasant)
- Cares full of (sad)
- Dead of the
- Death
- Exertion mental (excelling in mental work, work)
- Exertion physical (climbing, business, striving, work)
- Exhausting
- Fantastic (coloured, visionary)
- Fire
- Frightful (anxious)
- Many (dreaming
- Misfortune (accidents, disaster, events unfortunate, loss)
- Murder (killing)
- Pleasant (joyous, peaceful, quiet, wonderful)
- Rousing the patient (waking)
- Sad (cares, weeping)
- Scientific (intellectual)
- Shooting
- Vexatious (anger, quarrels, unpleasant, striving)
- Visionary (fantastic)
- Weeping (sad)
COMMON THEME OF OCEAN REMEDIES DREAMS AND ITS INTERPRETATION
In the practice and consultation with patients, we have gathered and applied the knowledge that certain dreams are common in certain life situations and help in selection of the remedy. From our knowledge of the symptomatology of the drug we can sometimes predict the dreams and vice versa.
In this to mention some dreams with their remedies in co-relation with its symptomatology considering as ocean remedies repertory.
- Natrum muriaticum: Natrum mur patients are extremely sensitive and introvert. They have symptoms resulting from ill effects of grief and anger. They do not confide in others and brood over the same thing over and over again. They cannot tolerate injustice, and any type of deception causes grief and mortification. Hateful; to persons who had offended him and sever their relation with them. Silent grief; cannot cry. There is a fear of misfortune, something will happen; hence these people have a fear of people, especially robbers which makes them search beneath the bed and re-check the locks. All these suppressed emotions, especially grief, take the form of dreams –
- Anger – quarrels, vexations
- Anxious- weeping during sleep, with
- Beaten, being
- Cruelty – ill-treatment, mutilation, violence
- Death
- Delusions, thieves, sees, and will not believe the contrary until the search is made after a dream
- Fights – battles, duels, enemies, stabbed, quarrels, war, wounded
- Frightful, true, after waking, seeming
- Quarrels – anger, abused, insults, provoked, reconciliation
- Robbers
- Sad- cares, weeping
- Vexations – anger, quarrels, unpleasant, striving
- Water – danger, drowning, falling, flood, jumping, storm
- Sepia succus: In this remedy mental symptoms arise from sexual excesses. It is especially suited to women who have to do a lot of work in water and have overvigorous husbands. They are lascivious, lustful. On account of a very demanding husband, these patients develop many symptoms as a result of traumatic coition, to the extent of indifference. For example – anxiety after coition, discouraged, dullness, confusion, hysteria, irritability, restlessness, sadness after coition. Aversion to husband. Indifference to loved ones.
- Dreams – Amorous (coition), Amorous coition with
- Dreams Amorous pollution, with they have a dread of men. Women hate men and men hate women, since these patients are forced into coition much against their will.
- Dreams – pursued being (fleeding, running)
- Dreams – Pursued being – run backwards, must
- Dreams – Rape, threats of rape
- Dreams – Threats – rape of she feels she is estranged from her family, that she is alone in a graveyard. Fear of ghosts. Sees images, phantoms, spectres, ghosts, spirits.
- Dreams – Forest
- Dreams – Forest – going astray in a forest
- Dreams – Ghosts
- Dreams – Ghosts, fighting with ghosts
- Dreams – Lost in a forest
- Dreams – Astray, going she works very hard for the family and is full of cares and worries about domestic affairs. She imagines she is poor, has a fear of poverty. So, she slogs hard lest her family should starve.
- Dreams – Business, of day, of the (events) of
- Dreams – Busy, being; hurry
- Dreams – Difficulties
- Dreams – Exhausting. She only hopes for the best and has illusions of fancy.
- Dreams – Pleasant (joyous, peaceful, quiet, wonderful)
- Dreams – Visionary (fantastic)
- Dreams – Vivid
- ANIMAL KINGDOM DREAMS
The Homoeopathic remedies belonging to the animal kingdom have certain features in common. These remedies somewhere in their entire symptomatology portray the animal instincts and the struggle for survival. For every living creature, the rule of “survival of the fittest” applies. Various qualities and behavioural patterns are adopted by every organism to combat the causes which pose a threat to its existence. Some of these qualities are seen as fears, the need to be in the group of the same species, nonacceptance of strangers, loyalty, sexual instincts, inventiveness and various other instincts. Enumerated below are some remedies belonging to the animal kingdom which are listed in the repertory in rubrics under dream and represent some animal quality:
- Abused, being, too weak to defend himself – Ambra
- Accusations – Lach
- Animals – Cench, Tarent
- Animals biting – Cench, Lyss
- Animals copulating – Cen
- Animals, wild – Tarent
- Animals pursuing him – Cench, Tarent
- Autopsies – Cench, Ped
- Bitten by dogs, being – Lyss
- Bitten by snakes, being- Cench
- Body disfigured – Sep
- Body, parts of body, arm, covered with blisters – Cast
- Body, parts of body, face, disfigured- Sep
- Body, parts of body, teeth, breaking off – Ther
- Body, parts of body, teeth, pulled out, being – Cench
- Bulls pursuing him -Tarent
- Calling out, someone is calling – Sep
- Coffins – Form
- Conspiracies – Mosch, Ped
- Contempt – Tarent
- Danger – Lach, Tarent
- Death – Cast, Crot-e, Crot-h, Lach, Tarent
- Difficulties – Sep
- Dogs, bitten by dogs, being – Lyss
- Exertion, mental – Lach, Mosch
- Exhausting – Lach, Lyss, Sep
- Failures – Mosch
- Falling – Elaps, Sep
- Falling, abyss, into an – Elaps
- Falling, height, from a – Sep
- Falling, horse, from – Tarent
- Falling, pit, into a – Elaps
- Famine, being left in a dungeon to die of, escaping by crawling out – Ped
- Fights – Elaps, Mosch
- Fights, ghosts, with – Sep
- Fire – Cench, Lach, Meph, Naja
- Forms, black form, darkening the sun – Ped
- Friends, death of – Lach
- Frightful – Ambr, Apis, Canth, Cench, Crot-h, Lach, Mosch, Naja, Sep
- Horses, drowning – Crot-h
- Horses, falling from horse – Tarent
- Humiliation – Mosch
- Il-treatment – Ambr
- Insults – Tarent
- Insurrections – Ped
- Invention, full of – Lach
- Journeys, horseback, on – Ther
- Journeys, railroad, by – Apis
- Knives – Lach
- Loss, disheartening – Meph
- Lost in a forest – Sep
- Misfortune Tarent
- Mortification, grief ete. – Mosch
- Murder – Crot-h, Lach, Naja
- Murdered, being – Lach
- People, assembled – Apis
- People, companies s – Canth
- Places, falling from high places – Sep
- Pursued, being – Ped, Sep
- Pursued, animals, by – Cench, Tarent
- Pursued, bulls, by – Tarent
- Pursued, man, to violate her, by a – Cench
- Pursued, run backwards, must – Sep
- Quarrels – Apis, Canth, Crot-h, Mosch, Sep
- Rape – Cench, Sep
- Rape, pursued for rape, being – Cench
- Rape, threat of rape – Sep
- Running, up and down – Ambr
- Sick people – Mosch
- Stab, others will – Lach
- Stabbed, fear of being stabbed – Lach
- Suicide – Naja
- Terrapin – Cench
- Theft, being accused of – Lach
- Threats – Sep
- Threats, rape, of – Sep
- Unsuccessful efforts – Mosch
- Vengeance – Lach
- Walking, floor, on hot – Apis
- Walking, woods, in – Canth
- Wild – Apis
Some remedies belonging to the animal kingdom and which are covered under rubrics in dreams pertaining to animals are:
- Animals – Cench, Tarent
- Animals, biting – Cench, Lyss
- Animals, copulating – Cench
- Animals, wild – Tarent
- Animals, pursuing him – Cench, Tarent
- Bitten by animals, being, dogs, by – Lyss
- Bitten by animals, being, snakes, by – Cench
- Bulls, pursuing him – Tarent
- Dogs, bitten by dogs, being – Lyss
- Horses – Tarent, Ther
- Horses, drowning – Crot-h
- Horses, falling from horse – Tarent
- Horses, riding – Ther
- Lice – Ped
- Mice – Sep
- Pursued, animals, by – Cench, Tarent
- Pursued, bulls, by – Tarent
- Rats – Sep
- Snakes – Cench, Lach, Sep
- Snakes, biting him – Cench
- Stags – Canth
- Vermin – Sep
CONCLUSION
1. Dreams offer a unique window into the subconscious mind, providing valuable insights for homoeopathic case taking and prescribing.
2. By exploring dreams, homoeopaths can gain a deeper understanding of the patient’s psyche, emotions, and underlying pathology.
3. The inclusion of dream analysis in homoeopathic practice can lead to more accurate prescribing and holistic treatment.
4. Dreams can serve as a powerful tool for unlocking the patient’s inner world, facilitating more effective healing and personalized care.
5. By tapping into the symbolism and themes present in dreams, homoeopaths can develop a more comprehensive understanding of the patient’s needs and tailor treatment accordingly.
These my conclusive remarks highlight the hidden meanings and secrets significance of dreams in homoeopathic case taking and prescribing in practice, emphasizing their potential to enhance case taking, prescribing, and overall patient care.
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Authors –
Dr. Jineshwar Annasaheb Yaligouda , M.D. (Hom), Professor & H.O.D Department of Human Anatomy, Gulabrao Patil Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Miraj, Maharashtra State. India.
: President of Malgaon Medical Association Malgaon and Sanjivani Clinic, Malgaon, Miraj, Sangli. Maharashtra State. India.
Mr. Padmraj Jineshwar Yaligouda, B.H.M.S. Final, Bharatesh Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Belagavi, Karnataka State.
